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Quantitative Easing or Quantitative Tightening? Mince Pies or Christmas Pudding?

By Grace Shore Banks | 24 November 2022

‘Kent Invest have had a busy first term with the weekly meetings and socials. Most recently, we had a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ social in … Read more

Why women are no better off having a baby now than in the 70s

By Grace Shore Banks | 18 November 2022

Equal pay day – ‘the day in the year where women effectively stop earning relative to men because of the gender pay gap’ – is set for Sunday … Read more

Professor Jagjit Chadha: The Money Minders

By Grace Shore Banks | 15 November 2022

Join Jagjit Chadha, formerly Professor of Economics here at Kent, now Director of NIESR, and author of ‘The Money Minders: the Parables, trade-offs, and Lags … Read more

Dragons Den: Training to tender for a Research Project with the Green Infrastructure Framework

By Grace Shore Banks | 09 November 2022

This interdisciplinary CEAS and KISS PhD training Workshop examined what it actually means to be a consultant based on a real-life call for tender – … Read more

Thinking about economics in everyday situations; Introducing Jan-Philipp Dueber

By Grace Shore Banks | 26 October 2022

‘Hi all, I’m Philipp, and I’m the Director of Studies Stage 1. Basically that means that I’m around to help you with any problems you … Read more

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? Do employers discriminate on the basis of race?

By Grace Shore Banks | 20 October 2022

This Black History Month we have been looking at economics research around black outcomes, opportunity and income. U.S. citizen, Dr Amrit Amirapu discusses a paper … Read more

Professor Miltos Makris, 1970- 2022

By Grace Shore Banks | 17 October 2022

Professor Makris was struggling with an aggressive brain tumour and had been undergoing several surgeries, and innovative treatment thanks to the support of many who … Read more

Breaking the bank: why removing interest on reserves would ‘tie one hand behind the back of the Bank of England’

By Grace Shore Banks | 09 October 2022

As the Chancellor finds himself under pressure because of his £43bn tax-cutting programme, it is understood that the Treasury is weighing up a number of … Read more

Returning with enthusiasm and motivation! Welcome Back to our Placement Students

By Grace Shore Banks | 06 October 2022

We were delighted to welcome back our 23 economics Year in Industry students this month, returning for their final year of studies with us All … Read more

Blowing the budget: why the Conservative mini-budget is so toxic

By Grace Shore Banks | 05 October 2022

How should we interpret the U-turn on the abolition of the 45p rate for high income earners? ‘This is more a political move than one … Read more

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